high-minded

Collocations

3

ADJ.

clear, generous, ideal

HIGH-MINDED + NOUN

hospital, perception

PREP.

in, on

Definitions

adj

1

Given to idealism.

Walter was the ideal—generous, high-minded, clear in perception; but sensitive, even weak, in action; or, rather, too apt to imagine a world full of lofty aims and noble impulses, and then fancying that was the world in which he had to live.

2

Refined, cultured, particularly civilized.

After the pause for much more self-deprecating laughter and with everyone listening, Salmond rounded off his story on a high-minded note. The hospital near that village is also powered by the same hydro project, he told them.

3

Proud or arrogant.

4

Magnanimous.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — of high moral or intellectual value

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Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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Walter was the ideal—generous, high-minded, clear in perception; but sensitive, even weak, in action; or, rather, too apt to imagine a world full of lofty aims and noble impulses, and then fancying th

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After the pause for much more self-deprecating laughter and with everyone listening, Salmond rounded off his story on a high-minded note. The hospital near that village is also powered by the same hyd